Maine Learning Results: Health Education and Physical Education-C. Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
C1. Health Practices and Behaviors
Grades 6-8
Students demonstrate a healthy practice and/or behavior to maintain or improve their own health in each of the following areas: personal hygiene, healthy eating; physical activity; and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
•Diet and nutrition play a huge role in leading a healthy lifestyle.
•The use of alcohol/tobacco/drugs will have a negative impact on an individual's health.
•The importance of leading a physically active lifestyle.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
•How does the food pyramid relate to leading a healthy lifestyle through diet and nutrition?
•How does the use of substances affect your body physically and emotionally as well as others surrounding you?
•Why does leading a physically active lifestyle improve your overall health?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:(K)
Students will be able to do:(S)
•Vocabulary-food pyramid, heart disease,
metabolism, calorie, BMI, BMR,
use, misuse, abuse, addiction
•Critical details-physically active lifestyle
helps with daily performance, tobacco/alcohol/
drug use can lead to disease
•Key factual information-types of chronic
diseases, how genetics play a role in an
individual's health
•Demonstrate a possible nutrition plan that could be followed.
•Tell a story about how alcoholism and drug addiction affect an individual's friends and family.
•Design a workout plan for a mock individual.
•Compare and contrast the health of a tobacco user's health and a non-tobacco user's health.
•Role play how the excessive use of alcohol affects others around him/her (the alcoholic).
•Recognize the benefits of leading an overall healthy lifestyle.
Stage 1 Identify Desired Results
C1. Health Practices and Behaviors
Grades 6-8
Students demonstrate a healthy practice and/or behavior to maintain or improve their own health in each of the following areas: personal hygiene, healthy eating; physical activity; and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention.
What understandings are desired?
•The use of alcohol/tobacco/drugs will have a negative impact on an individual's health.
•The importance of leading a physically active lifestyle.
What essential questions will be considered?
•How does the use of substances affect your body physically and emotionally as well as others surrounding you?
•Why does leading a physically active lifestyle improve your overall health?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
metabolism, calorie, BMI, BMR,
use, misuse, abuse, addiction
•Critical details-physically active lifestyle
helps with daily performance, tobacco/alcohol/
drug use can lead to disease
•Key factual information-types of chronic
diseases, how genetics play a role in an
individual's health
•Tell a story about how alcoholism and drug addiction affect an individual's friends and family.
•Design a workout plan for a mock individual.
•Compare and contrast the health of a tobacco user's health and a non-tobacco user's health.
•Role play how the excessive use of alcohol affects others around him/her (the alcoholic).
•Recognize the benefits of leading an overall healthy lifestyle.
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and JayMcTighe